Published date: June 10, 2025
Job Title: Maintenance Worker
Organization: City of Lake Forest Park
Address: 17425 Ballinger Way NE, Lake Forest Park, WA
Job Website Link: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/cityoflakeforestpark/jobs/4897392/maintenance-worker?pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs
Short Description:
Perform general Public Works maintenance manual labor duties operating a variety of light and moderately heavy construction and maintenance equipment. This includes using hand and power tools in the construction, maintenance, improvement and repair of city streets, vegetation control, asphalt, concrete, gravel, and drainage repairs, and right-of-way areas. Operates backhoes, rollers, dump trucks, jackhammer, lawn mowers, and other specialized equipment. Provide support for special events. May perform duties of similar complexity in streets, sanitary sewer, parks, building facilities and storm drainage facilities as required or assigned. Because of the small size of the city staff, each staff member is expected to perform a wide range of field duties as may be required from time to time.
Frequent evening, night and weekend work required, as well as call-out services as directed. This position is represented by Teamsters Local 117. Note: The Teamsters contract is currently under negotiation; base wages posted reflect 2024 rates.
Employee must live within a 30-40 minute response time of City limits.
Job Category: Non-Exempt
Job Type: Full-Time
Salary and Benefits Information: $6,000.04 – $7,058.87 Monthly (2024 wages) + OT & Benefits
Full Description:
Perform general Public Works maintenance manual labor duties operating a variety of light and moderately heavy construction and maintenance equipment. This includes using hand and power tools in the construction, maintenance, improvement and repair of city streets, vegetation control, asphalt, concrete, gravel, and drainage repairs, and right-of-way areas. Operates backhoes, rollers, dump trucks, jackhammer, lawn mowers, and other specialized equipment. Provide support for special events. May perform duties of similar complexity in streets, sanitary sewer, parks, building facilities and storm drainage facilities as required or assigned. Because of the small size of the city staff, each staff member is expected to perform a wide range of field duties as may be required from time to time.
Education and Experience:
Required:
-Highschool diploma or equivalent.
-At least 18 years old upon hire date.
-Valid Washington State Class “A” CDL license upon date of hire.
-Valid Washington State Driver’s License upon date of hire and the ability to maintain insurability with the City.
-Flagging card within six months from hire date.
-CPR, First Aid & AED certification within six months from hire date.
Preferred:
-At least five years prior Public Works maintenance experience
Working Conditions / Physical Requirements:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
Work is performed primarily in outdoor settings. Hand-eye coordination is necessary to operate computers and various pieces of maintenance equipment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee often works near moving mechanical parts or in outside weather conditions. The employee is exposed to cold, wet and/or humid or hot conditions, fumes, toxic or caustic chemicals.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to: Perform heavy manual labor in all weather conditions. This may include physically strenuous labor, continuous or repetitive movements; skillful, controlled manipulations of small objects; fine, highly controlled muscular movements to adjust the position of a control mechanism; bending or stooping repeatedly or continually over time; working in small cramped spaces; climbing ladders or steps; walking on rough, uneven ground; and performing other physical tasks as required of the position. Required to sit, talk, and hear; frequently required to use hand tools which require repetitive arm, wrist and hand movement. Occasionally required to stand and reach with arms and hands, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, bend or crawl. Specific vision abilities include close, distant, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception and to adjust focus, talk and hear.
The employee must lift and/or move up to 50 pounds in a variety of indoor and outdoor conditions and terrain as well as perform a variety of physical tasks and heavy labor. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
Duties are performed primarily outdoors in a variety of terrains, under a variety of weather conditions, including sun, rain, wind, mud, and snow, for periods of approximately eight hours/day. Duties are frequently performed working alone, but may sometimes be performed as part of a work team. Conditions at work sites might include falling objects, loose footings, loud noises, construction equipment, and working in right-of-way, traffic, or roadways.
To view the full job description, visit: https://cityoflfp.gov/671/Job-Descriptions
Attachment: Maintenance-Worker-JD-FINAL